Hello chapo, what did you use to make the installer? the microsoft one click deployment looks bad,Btw if you upload the code I might be able to use some of it in a project

Posted by: Chapo 13/10/2014 - 21:05:33

I use http://www.innoide.net/ for installer.

I prefer giving code to someone which continue HLBox development, not for other project

Posted by: LiveWire 13/10/2014 - 21:35:14

Sorry I have very little time ATM, and my coding is mostly from game programming, I find editing text a real pain

I was after the part that gets the steam directory, I guess its in the config.vdf ?

Posted by: SamuelKPeter 21/12/2014 - 21:07:09

Click 'n Play doesn't work for me when I try to install Half-Life Deathmatch maps. Click the button, nothing happens. Even more strange, when I use Click 'n Play to install maps for CS 1.6 and other mods it installs normally.

Any fix for this?

EDIT: seems like HLBox isn't even configured to install HLDM maps, as I went to appManifests.cfg and saw no index for Half-Life there. Tried setting one myself but it didn't work. Here's what it looked like:

Posted by: LiveWire 30/12/2014 - 11:31:26

Posted by: Ch40$ 15/01/2015 - 08:07:01

Posted by: SamuelKPeter 11/09/2015 - 09:54:00

Hi, any progress on fixing up HLbox for Half-Life Deathmatch? I'm available for testing, if you want.

Posted by: Safety1st 21/12/2015 - 15:37:07

It seems the tool doesn't include custom sky files into res file...

Posted by: Chapo 21/12/2015 - 17:04:15

As far as i remember, tga files are not necessary to be listed in res files.

Posted by: Safety1st 21/12/2015 - 19:34:56

Custom sky & overviews should be listed in res files definitely. It is true both for BMP and TGA.

Posted by: Chapo 23/12/2015 - 06:57:20

You're surely right, I don't remember.

Before adding resources in res, I check in gcf files used by the game if they are not 'standard' resources. Perhaps missing sky files are already included in one of the necessary gcf files.

Posted by: Safety1st 23/12/2015 - 07:37:46

May be you should limit the number of 'gkfs' checked? For example, for Half-Life maps you must search for resources in 'valve' only; for CS it will be 'valve' & 'cstrike' but not others. And for sky you should check for both types of images.

http://www.17buddies.net/17b2/View/Map/109132/dutch_wintercold.html the perfect example where HLBox made a mistake.

Posted by: LiveWire 23/12/2015 - 10:55:43

QUOTE (Safety1st @ 23/12/2015 - 07:37:46)

May be you should limit the number of 'gkfs' checked? For example, for Half-Life maps you must search for resources in 'valve' only; for CS it will be 'valve' & 'cstrike' but not others. And for sky you should check for both types of images.

http://www.17buddies.net/17b2/View/Map/109132/dutch_wintercold.html the perfect example where HLBox made a mistake.

Just to make things more difficult some games like DOD & CS got updated with steampipe, cstrike_downloads is where custom maps & assets should be put now.

Posted by: Safety1st 23/12/2015 - 13:15:56

LiveWire, we are discussing other thing now.

Posted by: Chapo 23/12/2015 - 16:31:44

QUOTE (Safety1st @ 23/12/2015 - 07:37:46)

May be you should limit the number of 'gkfs' checked? For example, for Half-Life maps you must search for resources in 'valve' only; for CS it will be 'valve' & 'cstrike' but not others. And for sky you should check for both types of images.

http://www.17buddies.net/17b2/View/Map/109132/dutch_wintercold.html the perfect example where HLBox made a mistake.

I must take care of all gcf files.

For each game, information of used depots can be found here: http://steamdb.info

For example, deathmatch classic, use 1,2,3,6 and 41:

https://steamdb.info/app/40/depots/

For depots scanned for each game, see the file Program Files\17Buddies\HLBox17b\appManifests.cfg lines UsedDepots=x,y,z

QUOTE (LiveWire @ 23/12/2015 - 10:55:43)

Just to make things more difficult some games like DOD & CS got updated with steampipe, cstrike_downloads is where custom maps & assets should be put now.

Note that HlBox mut be executed in administrator mode in order to create files and folders in steam path.

Otherwise it doesn't works

Posted by: LiveWire 23/12/2015 - 18:19:02

QUOTE (Chapo @ 23/12/2015 - 16:31:44)

Thank you LiveWire, but I already know that and HLBox use those paths

Yeh I thought you would, I only mentioned it beacasue I tried click n play the other day and it installed the map into the \common\Half-Life\dod folder, But I just reinstalled windows & HLbox and is working fine.

Posted by: Safety1st 23/12/2015 - 19:31:31

QUOTE (Chapo @ 23/12/2015 - 21:10:48)

Safety=> I just tried with your sample map and it works: sky files are listed in res file.